Syncfusion Essential Studio WPF 2020 Volume 4

Common

• Added Microsoft .NET 5.0 support.
• Preview to production-ready controls - The following controls are now marked as production-ready controls for WPF:
  • Scheduler.
  • StepProgressBar.

Theme Studio

• New Microsoft Office2019 high contrast white theme - New office2019 high contrast white theme support has been added for both framework and Syncfusion controls.
• System theme - The system theme has been updated to generate both framework and Syncfusion controls from ThemeStudio.

New Badge Control (Preview)

• The new WPF Badge control is used to notify users of messages via a simple, elegant badge view. The Badge control will be loaded with predefined shapes and contextual color variants. It can be easily integrated with other controls like Button, Ribbon, and Listview.

Scheduler

• Load on demand - Load appointments on demand for the visible date range with the loading indicator. Loading appointments on demand improves loading performance ranging multiple years.
• Appointment reminder - The Scheduler alerts you with reminders at specified time periods before an appointment’s start time.
• Timeline views - View timeline day, timeline week, timeline workweek, and timeline month views without dynamically switching among day, week, workweek, and month views on the timeline.
• Merge adjacent view for special time region - Merge adjacent special time regions and show them as a single region instead of showing them separately for each day in week and workweek views.
• Recurrence helper methods - Get the appointment occurrence of a specific date from the pattern of appointments and get the pattern of appointments from a specific appointment occurrence.
• Theme color support - Appointment background, foreground, and dragging time indicator colors can be customized based on the theme.

Diagram

• Diagram ribbon - The new Diagram Ribbon component is a predefined, fully customizable, and ready-to-use ribbon control that provides the UI for the most common features and settings of the Diagram control and its elements. These features and settings include:
  • Saving and loading diagrams.
  • Printing and exporting to an image.
  • Formatting text within diagram shapes.
  • Customizing the appearance of diagram shapes and more.
• Stencil feature improvements - The following enhancements have been made to the stencil feature:
  • Added support for searching for symbols from the collection of symbol groups and categories.
  • Added support for specifying a title for the stencil.
  • Added support for switching the symbol filter display mode to either combo box or list view.
  • Added support for compact and expand stencil display modes.

Navigation Drawer

• Display mode - Users can opt for compact and expanded mode displays of the drawer menu.
• Items and ItemsSource support - Users can populate the drawer using Items and ItemsSource collections.
• Hierarchical menu - Supports hierarchical display of items in the drawer.
• Predefined item types - Users can now populate the drawer menu with predefined item types such as Tab, Button, Header, and Separator.

Ribbon

• Application Menu - The Ribbon control provides application menu support that contains standard commands based on the Microsoft Windows Explorer. The menu appears when a user clicks the file or backstage button.
• Placement support for BackStage - Previously, the BackStage opened and closed only when the ribbon was placed within the RibbonWindow. Now, it opens or closes within any window or placement target specified by the users. BackStage also opens under the Ribbon tab or occupies the window or placement target’s entire client area.
• Different Animation support for BackStage - Previously, the BackStage opened and closed with scale transition only. Now, different types of animations such as fade, scale and zoom are provided and support has been added to customize the animation duration.

RichTextBox

• @Mentions - Select a person from the suggestions shown automatically by typing the @ symbol, followed by their name.

Step ProgressBar

• Added support for Secondary content.

Microsoft Excel Library

• Enhancements in XlsIO - The following enhancements were made in the XlsIO library:
  • An event has been added to control the data export from Excel to DataTable.
  • Long-dash line patterns are now supported in Excel charts.

Microsoft Word Library

• Metadata properties - Accesses metadata properties of a Word document used in the Microsoft SharePoint document library.
• Word-to-PDF enhancements - Word-to-PDF conversion has been enhanced in the Word Library:
  • Draw list numbers in Spanish format during Word to PDF conversion.

PDF Library

• EAN-13 and EAN-8 barcodes - Added the ability to render EAN-13 and EAN-8 barcodes in PDF pages and images.
• Read and edit JavaScript PDF actions - Added the ability to read and edit JavaScript PDF actions from the PDF document.

Microsoft PowerPoint Library

• Language for text part - Access and modify the language property of the text in a PowerPoint presentation.
• PPTX-to-PDF and PPTX-to-image conversions have been enhanced in PowerPoint Library:
  • The fallback font is used to render characters that do not have glyphs in the original font when converting PPTX to image.
  • Draws gradient line for shapes when converting PPTX to PDF and image.
  • Draws gradient fill with transparency for shapes when converting PPTX to PDF and image.

DataGrid

• Synchronize data operations of ICollectionView - Synchronize the data operations, such as filtering, sorting, and grouping, of an ICollectionView bound to a DataGrid.

TreeView

• Delete selected nodes - This feature allows users to delete one or more selected nodes by pressing the DELETE key on a keyboard.

Circular ProgressBar

• Added support for corner radius.